Tuning up for the big event
13 September 2012
About a quarter of a million people will be at outdoor music concerts in the UK this weekend. Making sure they have a good time is a mammoth task, as Paul Morris discovers
The modern music festival has come a long way since the hippy love-ins of the 1960s. A whole industry has grown up around festivals and they are now run with military precision.
With so many visitors, they have to be. This coming weekend alone, 55,000 clubbers will head for the Creamfields festival in Liverpool, the same number go to the rock festival at...